True or false: Legally Blonde is actually Reese Witherspoon’s best movie. True. True or false: Kim Kardashian’s greatest act skill was dressing up as Elle Woods for Halloween and re-creating Elle’s famous college admissions video. True???? Honestly, we all knew this was coming. As soon as Kim revealed that she was becoming a lawyer – what, like it’s hard? – the “Legally Blonde” jokes started popping up in stories about Kim. And so Kim went all-in. She got an excellent blonde wig, and hired some good people to recreate the Elle Woods college video:
Elle Woods Harvard Video Essay pic.twitter.com/PNMBs2dl0C
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 31, 2019
The thing is… when people say Kim has no talent, they’re not wrong. She isn’t an entertainer in any traditional sense. She can’t sing, she can’t dance, she can’t act her way out of a paper bag. But she is strangely watchable. Mostly because her catface has become some strange vortex and even the purposefully bad-quality video can’t hide it. Anyway, I truly didn’t start off this post intending to insult Kim. It’s a good costume. I wish the pink dress wasn’t so clingy and satiny (it needed to be more early ‘00s), but overall… she did a great job. Except for the acting. The acting was TERRIBLE.
Legally Blonde pic.twitter.com/7deqdWVv60
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) October 31, 2019
Photos & video courtesy of Kim Kardashian’s social media.
this made me laugh quite a bit. I thought it was a very well done costume and pretty funny considering her law stuff.
I thought it was great. No one can say Kim can’t laugh of herself and she really tried, she isn’t one of those people who try hard but act like they don’t. I’m just surprised she missed the opportunity of dressing up like a Playboy bunny.
I agree. Well played Kim.
I want to study law, sit for the bar, and be taken seriously- but first let me feed the social media machine?
But then, as you say, it is what one expects.
Im not a Kim fanatic but I thought this was pretty epic! She’s making fun of herself & it’s Halloween! She gets all the points for cleverness here!
I agree, it’s campy & cute. I don’t get the hate, she’s doing her thing, making bank from it & has evolved into a champion for reform with no shame in using her platform to meet those ends.
But yeah…rag on her for being talentless. The world is so bitchy. *sigh*
I agree. And I think she is thinking about her dad with this lawyer dream, and that is sweet.
(FWIW, every time I have a twinge of sadness about bitchy comments, I remember I have chosen to visit a site named “Celebitchy.”)
Huge risk, dressing like someone as iconically cute as Elle Woods. I call this a fail, because it makes Kim’s face look thin and old and vaguely moustachioed.
I was looking for this. There’s a lot of effort here and she mostly pulls it off. There’s a liveliness to Elle Woods though, which is what made her so compelling!
I’m not feeling this. As you say, Sarah, Elle Woods was cute, and she had a freshness about her. KK obviously put a lot into this, but all I see is ageing, hardened pawwwwn star.
Exactly, AnnaKist. I’m not saying it wasn’t a good costume. I’m saying that someone sooooo image-obsessed maybe shouldn’t have chosen a costume where she comes out looking worse in the comparison.
@AnnaKist :
+++++1
Yes, law school and four kids can age you. This is too cute and you know it!
Luckily it’s just Halloween though, not a movie remake. I didn’t expect perfection. Just fun. Was not disappointed!
KK wishes she were as cute, lively and smart as Elle Woods. No way.
Mustachioed? Not seeing it. The woman had every hair lasered off her body. Where is the vague mustache?
I actually enjoyed that. No, she can’t act. But she seems at least halfway aware of it, and it sort of just made it more funny.
It IS a great costume. I even think the bad acting was the point of the whole thing.
That was cute.
Even though I find Kim and her family completely phony & vapid (but kinda fun to gossip about) even I have to admit this was cute. What is the word coming to?
I think Kanye’s messiness is making me appreciate Kim. This was great!
Stupid and terrible acting.
I have a gay son currently in law school. He does a better Elle Woods.
👏👏
😂
😆🤗💁🏻♂️
I wonder what it must be like to have that much time on your hands…
It’s a cute idea, but yeah she’s a terrible actress.
Nope! Elle had charisma, spunk, and personality – Kim’s acting abilities are not that far advanced
I thought this was so fun and clever! Love it.
It just highlights how good Reese was!
Election is Witherspoon’s best movie. Mud too, but she’s not in that one much.
I came here to sing the praises of Election as well.
I also came to lavish love on Election (and on my guilty pleasure, Sweet Home Alabama)
@Hollz ME TOO on that guilty pleasure!
Ouch…..
I couldn’t concentrate on anything but her huge pink lips moving.
The huge pink lips and the heaving orange bosoms. Oi, what a combo.
The top pic looks like a wax sculpture. I really don’t understand why people practically worship this family.
I don’t either, but it’s becoming scary.
Agree that Legally Blonde is one of Reese’s best movies. I also loved her in Walk the Line, but she was iconic as Elle.
It’s a great costume idea. I like to think Elle would have worn a bra, or somehow made the dress look more high end. KK always manages to bring down a look.
I guess I’m alone on this but I hated it, I dont want Kim ruining a classic like legally blonde!
No, I agree w you!
‘Without the costume’
With all the money she has you would think she wouldn’t look so trashy.
As a lawyer and a big Legally Blonde fan I rolled my eyes so hard, I detest Kardashians. However, I find it pretty admirable that Kim is actually in law school. Good for her. Mixed feelings, I guess.
Kim is NOT in law school. 🙂
Ooooh, she’s so ironic being ironic on how ironic she is. This is all just painful, the amount of time and energy she put into all this? Gross.
Well it actually isn’t Ironic. Elle Woods went to Law School. Kim isn’t in Law School (no matter how many times she likes to make us think she is). She’s not earning a Law Degree, she’s simply trying to pass the Bar exam. Not the same at all but I get what you mean. Wow her acting is worse than I thought it would be !
Seriously? I did’t know that. I will have to modify my comment to just an eyeroll.
I don’t get why people think going to law school and/or having a law degree is more important than passing the bar exam and becoming an actual lawyer. Kim’s goal is to become a lawyer — that’s arguably more impressive for a rich person than simply earning a degree. It shows she wants to do the work.
I wouldn’t pay for a lawyer who didn’t go to law school.
Killjoy – The time spent at law school is called reading rather than studying because law is a constantly evolving thing. It’s a lifetime of learning even if you’re not in an academic environment. It isn’t passing the bar, but knowing law that makes you a lawyer, which is why law students have no life outside of school while they are there. I question her commitment to the law (though her commitment to appearances is unquestionable).
Sorry, off my soapbox now.
Her acting is borderline lame……only good thing that came from this was being reminded of Days of our Lives! lol. Hope and Stefano…..that Stefano tho and what he put poor Marlena and John Black through…..
@Killjoy Because we go to law school which is extremely difficult AND THEN pass the bar exam. So we do both and there is a very good reason for that. She basically found a loophole and took a shortcut. And yes if I have a legal problem of any kind, I would hire a lawyer with a degree & bar exam & lots of experience, not someone who found a simple way out. I am pretty sure any lawyer worth their salt would tell you the same.
@ KillJoy
It’s because she keeps insisting she’s in “Law School” when she’s not. It makes me question how intelligent she is if she hasn’t figured out that she’s not actually earning a Law Degree. She needs to stop this nonsense and call it for what it is…which is simply studying to pass the Bar.
I’m an attorney who graduated from the top of my class from a T-14. I worked at an AmLaw 100 Firm after graduating, and am licensed in NY, CA, and another state I’m not going out myself by saying. I now work at an immigration nonprofit providing pro-bono removal defense for detained non-citizens. What I’m saying is that I’m more impressed by someone who (at least says) wants to do the work. Being a lawyer is about doing the work, and I’m sick of hearing lawyers sitting on their laurels of where they went to law school, as though that’s the accomplishment, and not actually doing the damn work.
@ Killjoy
Well good for you Killjoy. You should be proud of your accomplishments. But these comments have nothing to do with that. It’s about Kim claiming she’s in Law School when she isn’t. It’s not about who is doing more work or not, it’s just about her not understanding that she’s not working towards a Law Degree and she should be honest about that. She is NOT in Law School plain and simple. Nothing more to say.
The whole being in law school thing reminds me of something I see a lot in my profession. I’m a nurse and so often patients or their family members will tell me that they are in nursing school. But while chatting with them I find out that no, they are not in nursing school. They are taking the prerequisites that are required for any associate’s or bachelor’s degree & haven’t even applied to the nursing program.
If anyone is taking her dressing up as Elle Woods to say she thinks she’s in law school, I think they’re overthinking her costume.
Regardless of her husband’s garbage politics and her infuriating silence regarding the same, she is studying law because she is interested in criminal justice reform and wants to learn more about the work lawyers do in that field. She wants to be an informed advocate — and studying law shows she’s in it for more than the hashtag activism. IDK if she is even planning to take the bar, so I guess when I was saying her goal is to “become a lawyer” to “do the work,” it seems to actually be educating and informing herself so she can become a better activist. I think it’s significant that she is funding other actual attorneys to do the real work while she studies law.
I’ll admit my perspective has changed since leaving biglaw, but it’s honestly embarrassing for lawyers who aren’t in public interest to criticize anyone who wants to do that work.
I side-eye anyone who defends the Kardashians for any of their krappy behavior.
Trashy AF but not a bad attempt.
I do like to see her wearing pink lipstick for a change!
Cute costume but lordy Kim’s face looks scary to me.
Well, it was Halloween, after all… 🎃
@velvetelvis, I know! Maybe I missed her latest round of face tweaking, but my god Kim, stop it. She’s getting so close to Michael Jackson territory. It’s so crazy to see what she looked like in the Paris Hilton days compared to what she has become now.
People think this is a decent Elle Woods? I thought either someone was cosplaying as Lady Gaga or that this WAS Lady Gaga. I love Legally Blonde but the reference was lost on me.
All these people do is dress up and take pictures and not just on Halloween
Has anyone heard she’s staring in a movie with Jennifer Lopez?
She cannot pull off Reese’s bubbly personality. At all.
See of all the things I’ve Had to read about because I don’t watch the show and never have, this is literally the only thing I love that she’s done and I’m stanning for it i thought she was campy in a good way. If you’re wondering, yes it’s freezing down here in hell!
I’ll be the killjoy and say Legally Blonde isn’t a film that has aged well to me. It’s very…2000s white faux feminism to me. Women were only 4% behind men in getting degrees by 2001 and surged past them not long after. Nobody thought a cute, blonde woman couldn’t go to school for something other than a Mrs. Degree at that point. And beyond that, Elle Woods was a rich girl who was going to be fine no matter what she did.
On the costume: wig is great, makeup is good, dress is tacky
Kim looks great as a blonde.
^@veronica s, I object. Legally Blonde is one of the most rewatchable movies ever made. I prefer watching it many times over than classic comedy hits like Mean Girls and Clueless. I think you can still be feminist and still enjoy things that were set by society as girly.
You know Kim was pretty decent on Drop Dead Diva, it surprised me actually. Would I watch an entire movie or show with her acting in it, no, but she’s not atrocious. Plus this was a cute idea and she’s laughing at herself so points to Kim.
She looks great, but wow is she a bad actress